I’m a sad b****** I know!

Thats because…

you have lost that loving feeling….

Link thanks to Air Britain Information Exchange

http://www.oldwings.nl/content/c47_yic/c47.htm

http://cgi.ebay.de/5310-FLUGZEUG-BEUTE-SPITFIRE-IN-THEVILLE_W0QQitemZ130131180831QQihZ003QQcategoryZ15504QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Well AZ was 234 Sqn and AZ-H was Serial N3277

This is a well known Spitfire captured by Germans.

15th August 1940

1815hrs: Cherbourg. Spitfire N3277. 234 Squadron Middle Wallop
P/O Richard Hardy Taken prisoner. (Forced landed on beach after combat over Channel off Swanage)

This Spitfire was later tested at Rechlin

PS. In 1954 56 different RAF Stations had ‘At Home’ displays on Sat 17th Sept – But unfortuately I do not have a list of this 56!!!

Just a thought.. Where was the Dam Busters filmed ? Scampton? and what date.. I wonder if there was a RAF “At Home” display (usually around 15th Sept) in 1954 or 1955 and they used one of the aircraft one the base at the At Home display

Of course it will be labelled RAF @ Home now 😉

As film released in 1955 I would assume it would be 1954..

PS

Had anyone considered the ‘strange circular opening’ might be nothing more than a convient and safe way, but still maintaining the integrity of the frame, thus providing and easy way to get in and out of the front of the nose cone during training???

Just a thought…..

I should have added to my last post that I have the movment card for AM910 which states……13.4.42 by No.11 R&SC Tollerton A/C Co.

Firstly , thanks Peter, re-reading your message has left mew more questions than answers

Both Air Britain Registers and the Wikipedia reference (I know the latter is not infallible!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberator_B_Mk_I

have

“March 1942, transferred out of 120 Sq.
13 April 1942, crashed on landing: Nutts Corner. “

So I assume that from the movement card, the accident on 6 November 1941 was not terminal and she was fixed only to have another crash landing on 12th April ??? Or has the history of the Lib been confused and she sat around RAF Nutts Corner for 6th months while it was decided what to do with her? only to be ‘paper’ transferred out off 120 Sqn in March 1942 and then actually ‘cut up on 13th April 1942) which is the date she was re-cat as CAT 5 and cut up by No.11 R&SC Tollerton A/C Co. on this date

The important bit to realise is that “No.11 R&SC Tollerton A/C Co.” does not imply she went to actually went to RAF Tollerton, rather it was a crew from “Tollerton Aircraft Services ” (Tollerton A/C Co) (later Field Services Aviation) that did the reclaimation and salvage… probably on site in Nutts Corner.

BTW does anyone know what the R&SC in No.11 R&SC is ?

Thanks

Paul

Can someone explain how an aircraft that crashed on landing at RAF Nutts Corner (Northen Ireland) in 13th April 1942 was scrapped in the same month and year at Tollerton (Nottingham).

Unless of course it was not a bad landing.. but then why write it off? and why move an aircraft from Northern Ireland to the UK for scrapping in war time?…

I am not saying the separate nose could have been moved across the Irish Sea for re-use etc…

BTW the date 13th April 1942 and location is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberator_B_Mk_I

and the same date and location is in Air Britain